Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-07-02
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.


A Cincinnati, Ohio, dispatch of the
23rd, says: aThe street excitement about
the Fidelity Bank, which has never been
great, has entirely subsidized this morning.
The bank examiner, Gen. Powell, is still in
charge. Mr.. De Camp, who has been named
as receiver, will probably decline, as an ac-
ceptance would compel him to give up his
present connection with the Metropolitan
National Bank. Interest is turning to the
question OF what assets can be made avail
able for the debts of the bank. If the presi-
dent and directors can be assessed to the
extent of their resources, it will produce
about 81, 10000 at a rough estimate. There
have been no further arrests this morning
and no new developments. It will neces-
sarily require much time and labor to make
thorough examination. Harper and
Hopkins being unable to find bondsmen were
taken to jail about IL O'Clock.
Saint Louis, Mo-, began its experience
with the new Sunday law on the 9th. The
saloons we're generally closed and there was
| great exodus outside Of the city limits
where liquid refreshments were procurable.
The grip car line alone carried 10000 pas
sengers to the country, and other lines
| were crowded with people. The hotels
| C1OoCu iuC1l UuU ku6SLS were served
| with wines etc, at the table. A test arrest
was made and the organized saloon-keepers
will contest it in court. In all there were
IL arrests for violation Of the law.
The great stock yards and packing
house Of Armour & Co. and the Chicago
| Packing and Provision Company, covering
nearly six acres, at the Union Stock yards,
| were destroyed by fire on the morning of
the 26th The immense buildings covering
! five acres, containing Ii, 900 barrels of Mess
| pork, Is, OO0, 600 pounds of short ribs and 200
live hogs were turned to cinders and ashes
The property destroyed was Of the value of
| s., 250, 00O and the insurance nearly as much.
The fire throws nearly 1000 men out of en-
ployment.
Cincinnati telegram, June 24-The affairs
of the Fidelity National bank have been
conducted with quietness to-day. Mr..
Trenholm emt Oh has not yet made the appoint
spent the night in jail. Neither have OBJ
tanned bail Louis Kennedy & Co., COM
mission and grain merchants, have assigned
to James Pettibone. The liabilities are said
to be $4,000, with assets of $4,000. Mr..
Kennedy was reported to be in the Chicago
wheat deal, and was heavy endorser of
the Fidelity bank paper.
At North Industry, Ohio. on the oath
Conrad Doll, a coal miner, aged forty.five
years, killed his wife and stepson with a
Ratchet. The murder was horrible one.
Doll escaped, but he may be lynched if
caught. Doll is Incorporate and has had
frequent quarrels with his wife. to whom
he was married six months ago. Doll found
letter written by another man to his wife,
In which statements compromising the wo-
man were made made. This led to the muir
der. ...-
Information has been received at Vic
toria. B. c., that the sloop Seabird, which
left Port Townsend for Alaska in May, 1885
never reached port but that the crew were
murdered by Indians in Knights inlet. The
crew consisted of Capt. Wells, Henry Moore,
pilot, Henry Bell, and German, name I'M
known. Moore had family in Victoria
Tom, an Indian, whose brother was hanged
at Nanamio last year, is supposed to have
committed the deed in revenge.
At two o'clock Thursday morning 40
masked men rode into Kosciusko, Missis-
sippi. proceeded to the Jail, overpowered
the jailor, and took James M. Webb, a
white man, to a convenient place and
hanged him. On Sunday last Webb poisoned
his wife for which he was arrested and
brought to the jail The evidence was SO
strong against him that the indignation of
the community was aroused up to the
lynching point.
The lawless condition that has ex-
listed for two Years in Rowan County,
Kentucky, during which time 81 persons
have been killed by encounters or assassina-
ton, was brought to probable end on the
22nd by the action of Sheriff's posse who
in the attempt to arrest Craig Tolliver
killed that desperate and four of his
associates and captured all but one of the
band.
Robbers boarded a Grand Trunk
train near Sarnia, Canada, at one O'Clock
Wednesday morning and went through two
sleepers, robbing The passengers Some
gave up their valuables and others resisted
and finally two of the thieves were over
powered and captured but third, who had
| most of the plumber, escaped. The railway
company will make good the losses of their
passengers.
An Alpena, Mich, telegram of June
81, says: Sheriff Lynch and posse have just
ward of SIT, 900 is said to be offered. They
are wanted in Ravenna, Ohio Sheriff
Lynch was shot in the leg, but not danger
ously wounded. One of the prisoners tried to
commit suicide soon after being captured.
At Auburn. Ala, the agricultural
and mechanical college was burned the
24th. The value of the apparatus, cabinets
and contents destroyed was over 100000
The building, with its improvements, was
also valued at over 100000. All is total
loss except a little chemical apparatus and
the contents Of the treasurer's and presi-
dents office. Insurance, $4,000.
At Cleveland, Ohio, Benjamin s..
Wheeler, over eighty years old, rich and
peculiar, was arrested nearly year ago for
choking his wife to death. On the 24th, a
jury before whom he was tried returned a
verdict of not guilty after being out but
twenty minutes. The old man broke down,
and men and women shed tears
A telegram from Sydney, N. S. W.,
Of the 23rd, reports that by the wrecking of a
passenger train on the Hawkesbury railway
seven persons were killed and forty others
injured. The accident was caused by the
failure of the brakes to work while the train
was going down an incline.
The Texas court of appeals has
affirmed the constitutionaity of the new
drummer's tax in it's application to the
drummers soliciting for business houses
outside OF Texas. This finding is in conflict
with the recent decision by the United
States supreme court
Sidney Corbett, a newspaper re-
porter of Jackson, Mich, was publicly horse
whipped in that place Saturday by the wife
of the editor of the Daily Courier, for his
alleged agency in procuring the publication
OF scandalous story regarding her.
Nearly $50, 900 cattle have been mar
keted in the Chicago stock-yards within
three weeks, and prices have touched the
lowest figures reached in many wears.